Renewing the stuff of life : stem cells, ethics, and public policy / Cynthia B. Cohen.

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

x, 311 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Introduction -- 1. What are stems cells? How to they function? What might they do? -- 2. The search for new sources of pluripotent stem cells -- 3. The moral significance of early human embryos in secular thought -- 4. The moral significance of early human embryos in religious thought -- 5. Creating human-nonhuman chimeras in stem cell research -- 6. International stem cell research and research cloning : three contrasting approaches -- 7. The development of national policy on stem cell research in the United States -- 8. In pursuit of national review and oversight of stem cell research in the United States -- Appendix A. NIH guidelines for funding of human pluripotent stem cell research, August 25, 2000 -- Appendix B. Speech by President George W. Bush regarding human stem cell research, August 9, 2001 -- Appendix C. Withdrawal of NIH guidelines for research using human pluripotent stem cells, November 2, 2001 -- Appendix D. NIH criteria for federal funding of human pluripotent stem cells, November 7, 2001 -- Appendix E. President George W. Bush's veto of the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2005, July 2006.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 244-295) and index.